When Angels Wear Fur The first thing Dr. Rachel Martinez noticed when she walked into St. Catherine’s Children’s Hospital that Tuesday morning wasn’t the usual chaos of breakfast trays being […]
The Name She Never Got to Carry The fluorescent lights in the hospital room buzzed with that particular frequency that seemed to burrow into your skull after days of listening […]
The Blood We Choose The first time my mother-in-law questioned my daughter’s paternity, I was standing in the produce section of the grocery store, seven months pregnant and trying to […]
The Seamstress’s Awakening For seven years, Maya Delacroix had lived like a pressed flower in an old book—beautiful once, but slowly losing her color and vitality. Her husband, Richard, was […]
The Unexpected Guardian The fluorescent lights in the oncology ward cast everything in a harsh, unforgiving glow. Samantha Chen lay in her hospital bed, staring at the ceiling tiles she […]
The Breaking Point At eight months pregnant, Rachel Martinez felt like a stranger in her own life. The small duplex she shared with her husband James and his sister Diana […]
The Constitutional Boundaries of Executive Power: Federal Military Deployment and the Limits of Presidential Authority Examining the legal, historical, and constitutional implications of domestic military operations in American democracy The […]
The Healer’s Heart The morning light filtered through the stained-glass windows of St. Catherine’s Chapel, casting rainbow patterns across the empty pews. Claire Whitmore stood at the altar in her […]
The Voice in the Dark Maria Santos had been a 911 dispatcher for twelve years in Cedar Valley County. She had fielded calls during three major hurricanes, a devastating wildfire […]
The Invisible Daughter My name is Sophia, and for twenty-three years, I lived as a ghost in my own home. When Mom married David at nineteen, I was barely two […]
